Of Moonshots, Cancer, Type 1 Diabetes and Other Diseases We’ve Yet to Cure

Editors' Note: This spring marks the final term for Dr. Allen Spiegel as Dean at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. One week ago, he delivered the address at Einstein's 60th Commencement. But we're not presenting his remarks for those reasons. Instead, we thought his reflections on the ...

An Aerial View of Bexley Elementary School

Charter school facts vs. myths: What NAACP needs to learn

Two Fridays ago, a national debate in education came to Florida: Are charter schools a good thing, and specifically, are they good for children of color? The second part of the question is particularly interesting to the civil-rights organization that hosted a hearing in Orlando to explore it: the NAACP . It’s also a vital question to me as an African-American educator. So, I made the trip from Polk County to speak.

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“No words to describe how cruel it is”: What slashing the Labor Department budget by 21 percent...